CAS 2014: In Which We Take Awesomeness Where We Find It
As a closer to my California Audio Show coverage, I’m going to tell you a little story about how I broke my own rule. CAS was really meant to be the cherry on top of a [...]
CAS 2014
CAS 2014: I left my heart in San Francisco
Running around the Westin San Francisco hotel for three days with a press badge on, feeling like John Atkinson (or even, shrudder, Scot Hull), certainly had its moments. Even [...]
CAS 2014: Eficion’s near-perfect tweet
No other speaker component gets as much attention from innovators and fiddlers as the tweeter. It’s easy to understand why: your ears can forgive some weaknesses in the [...]
CAS 2014: Stunt Systems, Sight and Sound with JBL and Mark Levinson
Again, ignore the misleadingly soothing pianist in the lobby. One of the real pleasures at an audio show comes when the big guns bring out all of their dogs and ponies. Some [...]
CAS 2014: Stunt Systems, Sony, Pass Labs and Blue Coast
Ignore the misleadingly soothing pianist in the lobby. One of the real pleasures at an audio show comes when the big guns bring out all of their dogs and ponies. Some may [...]
CAS 2014: True Audiophile presents Spatial, Audion, Human
It’s almost mean to make Gary Alpern, the True Audiophile, wait until the very end to see his room covered. After all, we opened our coverage with pictures of him from [...]
CAS 2014: Headmasters, with Eddie Current, Questyle, Audeze, Headamp
Next to a rain-soaked dumpster full of old Altec drivers, the Headmasters ballroom had to be the saddest place in the HiFi world. The Westin’s air walls are a perfectly [...]
CAS 2014: Wyred4Sound keeps it simple
You can lead music lovers to a better lifestyle system, but can you make them buy? That’s the question a lot of companies are asking as they seek to offer an alternative to [...]
CAS 2014: LRE speakers, clearly different
Reviewers are prone to wax poetic about speakers they like, often saying they “present a clear window to the music.” Not many transducers literally are a clear pane of [...]
CAS 2014: Electra Fidelity and Fritz Speakers
The (self-described) dashing duo of Fritz Heller of Fritz Frequencies and Tony Chipelo of Electra Fidelity joined forces again for this show, and they seemed to be far too [...]